Mates family shares their story of World War One tragedy
Thousands of names have been etched on memorials around the world to commemorate and honour those who have given their lives to war efforts. The…
Veterans to commemorate 70th anniversaryof the Battle of the Bulge in Belgium
70 years ago, Carl Wiggs from Montgomery, Alabama, was 19, a Private First Class, and stuck in a hole in the middle of Belgium’s Ardennes…
World War Two Hawker Hurricane – The Facts
Known as the workhorse of World War Two, the Hawker Hurricane was part of the reason Allied forces were able to gain victory. The Hurricane…
Nuts! Gen. McAuliffe and the Battle of the Bulge
In Hitler’s final push for victory, the Battle of the Bulge involved more than 610,000 American troops from December 1944 to January 1945, with more…
Battle of the Bulge recollected in officer’s account
The Battle of the Bulge was a surprise German attack on Allied forces in Belgium’s Ardennes region and ended up being part of the German’s…
USS Houston, being raided for salvage and valuables
An investigation and resulting report by a joint US-Indonesian Navy team has found that the USS Houston, located in the Sunda Strait is being raided…
World War Two unexploded ordnance legacy is finally cleared from the Pacific island of Bougainville
In an interview on New Zealand’s Dateline Pacific radio programme, Captain Richard Capel has described the recent de-arming and removal of remaining World War Two…
Soviet soldier turned French Resistance officer dies at age of 95
World War Two Soviet soldier, Nikolai Vasenin spent the war working tirelessly against German forces. But when he returned to the USSR after the war,…
Soviet spy who gathered intelligence from Japan’s 1945 atomic bomb sites has died at the age of 101
Even though it was the final months of World War Two, the USSR remained vigilant at the prospect of an impending clash with the West.…
Permanent memorial to Britain’s Korean War dead unveiled in London
As veterans from both World Wars dwindle in number, so too are those who took part in the Korean War of 1950-53. Therefore, to ensure…
JRR Tolkien’s ‘Lord of the Rings’ series inspired by real-life World War One experiences
It is little known that the battles of Middle Earth are in fact based and inspired by JRR Tolkien’s own World War One experiences and…
Families pick up torch as Pearl Harbor survivors fade
Four of nine remaining Pearl Harbor survivors gathered this week for a commemoration of the 73rd anniversary of the surprise attack that took the US…